Two Spaniards and an Italian kidnapped in Algeria in October and purportedly held by an Al-Qaeda splinter group are seen alive in a video shown to an AFP correspondent on Monday.

The undated footage shows the hostages’ faces clearly and is preceded by the name of the previously unknown organisation that claimed their abduction on Saturday, Jamat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Afriqqiya (Unity Movement for Jihad in West Africa).